Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...
Housewifely Bustle. Food is still scarce and high in Seoul, and black markets thrive everywhere. When military police decided to check all vehicles entering Seoul on the chance that they might be stolen or contain stolen parts, a near famine resulted. All the truckers who had been carrying food into the city promptly hid their vehicles under the nearest hayrack, leaving Seoul to starve until the MPs cooled off. Last week, adulterated whisky was selling for $20 a bottle on Seoul's black markets. On the other hand, G.I. pants (worth $15) could be had for as little...
...months passed, Starr seemed to thrive under his double routine, even though it meant working far into the night and often over a bewildering assortment of courses-Greek for Southwestern, business law for State, biology for Southwestern, mythology for State. Meanwhile, he happily pursued his extracurricular jobs. He never lost a pound, never appeared tired, and his work never fell off. Last week, Memphis State decided that college policy could no longer permit such goings-on, and Starr reluctantly resigned from the campus. But that did not mean that he intended to change his habits much...
...Pfizer pig-brooder the recording plays every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. The little pigs thrive mightily under this forced draught. None are trampled or eaten; no luckless runts are left teatless. Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...
...realists, says Pound, thrive in the atmosphere of the "service state" (i.e., the welfare state), because in its ponderous administrative machinery there is a dangerous blurring of administrative and judicial functions. When an. administrative agency acquires judicial functions in this way, the temptation is to shape laws in line with a stated policy, not merely to interpret them. To restrain these agencies there are few checks, no "taught tradition . . . Some today say that the law is power, where we used to think of it as a restraint upon power...